I have watched for this video for years and I love Juliette Binoche. She played this character very well. This movie helped me understand the book a lot better.
Oh God... I felt so bad for Heathcliff when they screamed at him to get out of the party. After he went to all that effort to dress up nice and was so vulnerable. 🥺❤️
Actually if you read the book you'd also find out that Cathy's his only reason to live and that he's like that also because of Hindley. The movie doesn't give the idea of how cruel Hindley has been to him ever since the first day they met. That's, according to me, the main reason why he's being cruel to the rest of the world, in this case the little birds...
One of my favorite novels..In this 1992 version, the actors did justice to the characters, especially Heathcliff played by Ralph Fiennes. Whenever I read the book, My heart always aches for others' behavior towards Heathcliff.
Weren't Heathcliffe and Cathy MUCH younger when they stumbled upon The Grange? And this version doesn't do much to show how close they were as children. He just looks like some stagehand she randomly gained interest in when she hit puberty.
I lost da love of my life. He died, i lived. 47 years later im still waitin to be w him. I can relate to this story. I cannot live w out my life, i cannot live without my soul. I live n miss u Chetta
I don't give a damn how good-looking someone like Heathcliff may be, I would never forgive him for starving those poor baby birds or any of his psychotic acts toward innocents.
@LOVESUZU0929 Cathy and Heathcliff were not as common in character as anyone could be - they were "nurslings of the moors", children of mother nature and so their instincts would play a huge role in their everyday behaviour.
@@colliric wrong, colliric. Larry even said he wasn't thrilled with the '39 WH. He wanted his wife to play Cathy..but she was filming Gone With The Wind. They got the much too cold Oberon. Also, Olivier disliked the director. I believe Dalton pulled off the change from the dirty farmhand to the suave success he became much more believably than any other version.
@@chipgaasche4933 We are allowed to disagree. I loved Olivier's version. I loved the black & white cinematography, and I thought Oberon played Cathy's dual-personality quite well. William Wyler is one of my favourite classic directors, he also directed my favourite film ever, 1959's 11-oscars winning masterpiece Ben-Hur. So maybe I'm a little biased, lol.
We did this book in our first semester of literary study and I wrote my first paper about the oppositions of the two houses. I think this film portrais this very nicely. After reading it first I thought that Heathcliff was absolutely gorgeous, but having read it several times now, I wouldn't take him for anything in the world. They were all a pretty selfish lot.
@@janesgems7 I don't believe that is any excuse at all. It is our personality and choices that define us, not what is done upon us. Cathy and her dad showed him kindness, he preferred to echo back the worst shown to him instead of the best.
@@Skitdora2010 Now that's interesting. Earnshaw showed him kindness...and he adored him. But Cathy, who like her brother was spoiled, was quite unkind to him at first....yet he still adored her. Then after she became infatuated with the privileged lifestyle of the Lintons, she chose wealth over love. And ruined everyone's lives, including her own. Heathcliff was no saint, but neither was he a devil. Heathcliff was very much like Sweeney Todd, who became a hate filled hollow man obsessed with one thing - revenge.
Giggly? My thoughts exactly,Richard.Maybe not the right choice..never read the book,though.Is she rebellious enough in the movie? Does not seem so.But as I did not read the book..
Ralph Fiennes is great in the role...but am I the only one with a little voice in the back of my head shouting, "Cathy, watch out, it's Lord Voldermort!"
@@chipgaasche4933 I love Timothy Dalton but that version too often slips into melodrama. I'm not sure anyone has come up with the truly definitive version of WH. It might be a story that's just too hard to film.
@@Fitzwilliamdarcy1000 They aren't. They are shown meeting as children early on in the film. I appreciate the ambition of the 1992 version; it's the only 2-hour film version that tries to tell the full story of the book. But that consequently means that they have to keep the pace moving and some crucial set up is missed at the beginning. Ralph Fiennes is a brilliant Heathcliff, though. Up there with Dalton and Hardy. He wasn't afraid to play Heathcliff as the ruthless anti-hero he became, while making it clear how haunted he was throughout by his obsessive love for Cathy.
They are experts because they are readers. My good lady, you do not have to be a student or anyone for that matter to understand this book or any book. You do not have to be a student either to appreciate the film. This is not goddamn rocket science. (And even that isn't that hard.) A person only has to be willing to take the character's hand and everything will be revealed to them.
@BeauCulMonsieur oh i agree completely! I really dont like Juliette Binoche as Cathy. I feel this verson also rushed the story alot at the beginning. My fav version is 2009, may not be the most faithful but its brillantly acted and told well.
@BeauCulMonsieur There are actors who can act the life of someone else, and there are actors who can become someone else. I'm afraid Juliette Binoche - in this particular film - belongs to the first.
I love Juliette Binoche; she's a very fine actor and to cut her slack, this was her first major English speaking role. But she is entirely miscast in this part. She's just not able to translate the wildness, capriciousness and power that Cathy possesses. Which is too bad. 😕 I also could not help but find her French accent distracting.
@iamnamine BTW: My prior comment was not meant to be snobby or mean, it's just that Wuthering Heights is such a great book that I'd hate for anyone to miss out on reading it first-hand, even if it is just for some homework assignment. There have been some lovely adaptations (my favorite is the 2009 one), but it's not QUITE the same as reading the book, though the feeling of the 2009 one does come close.
If so many people are complaining about this version then why continue watching it? How about we all keep the rude comments to ourselves? I like this version actually. (:
What the hell... She twists her ankle and faints because there are dogs chasing her down and she just STAYS there? Did they keep her or did she just think, "hey, I like this place better than my house!"
They do not live in the city and there are no cars. You try hobbling along with a twisted ankle several miles to get back home. Yes, they kept her there.
Lawrence Olivier always seemed too clean(? I'm not sure if that's the right word?) as Heathcliff for my liking. Although a few scenes in that production were absolutely magnificent.
@HeartlessBuggy omg I totally agree!!!! People and their unnecessary comments. If you don't like it...don't watch it!! Palin and simple. I think this is a great version...sooo
Weren't Catherine and Heathcliff meant to be only a little past their teens during this stuff? They look the same at the very start of the story and twenty years afterward (at least Heathcliff does). It annoys me when the movie doesn't follow the book.
@TheFoodie24 But she was very ill already when she gave birth and died soon after so I think it is ok to make it faster in this film, because they always have to skip something so the film wouldn't last too long.
It's well made and I like Olivier in some ways as Heathcliff. But it's not very faithful to the spirit of the story (too samitized) and of course only tells half of it.
naw, hes a gypsy and gypsies are all from india. they left india and traveled to north africa, the middle east and europe. The gypsies ranged in color but some are quite dark skinned so thats why they called him black skinned in the book, though he prolly was brown skinned since racist people clump people together despite varying characteristics.
There--hand-in-hand we tread again The mazes of this varying wood paddle, And soon, amid a cultured plain, Girt in with fertile solitude, We shall our resting-place descry, Marked by one roof-tree, towering high Above a farmstead rude to mine face.
+MSE. Dzirasa That's also what I think. If Hindley had acted like a real brother towards Heathcliff, and not like a jerk, there wouldn't have been all the revenge story, and Cathy and Heathcliff would probably have gotten maried and lived a not-so-terriblr life.
Don't remember that from the book, but I guess it's been a while... Just seems a little strange by today's standards, you know? If I went to my best friend's house and broke my toe on a rock, you can bet my parents would have dragged me outta there at that age...
this version is pants!! they had bloody YORKSHIRE accents for a start not plum-in-the-mouth accents. pah, overactors. the tom hardy version is magnificent
I like the acting in the 2009 version but they took too many liberties with the story and setting. They leeched so much of the Gothic out of it. I HATED what they did to the ending.
This movie has very little to do with the book. Apart from Juliette Binoche very dubious looks, she's been cast to portray both Catherine and Cathy, and that's fucking senseless, along with having the same actor for the diffrent ages of Heathcliff. who's the director of this thing...
This book....this movie are nothing short of a masterpiece.
I have watched for this video for years and I love Juliette Binoche. She played this character very well. This movie helped me understand the book a lot better.
I suggest you look for the Anna Calder-Marshall version.
@@chipgaasche4933 why are you commenting this everywhere?
seriously dude why tf you even here
You should watch the 1978 version...it's in detail...n exactly the novel...it's beautiful...
Ralph Fiennes is great here. In fact he's great in everything.
Next to laurence olivier, he's a GREAT and GOOD LOOKING ACTOR.......
Oh God... I felt so bad for Heathcliff when they screamed at him to get out of the party. After he went to all that effort to dress up nice and was so vulnerable. 🥺❤️
Actually if you read the book you'd also find out that Cathy's his only reason to live and that he's like that also because of Hindley. The movie doesn't give the idea of how cruel Hindley has been to him ever since the first day they met. That's, according to me, the main reason why he's being cruel to the rest of the world, in this case the little birds...
Luckily Hindley got his day..what goes around, imaginary..cruel uncivilised coward.
Wow, this comment was made 14 years ago. Tell me, how has your life been since you made this comment?
Juliette Binoche looks like Belle in this scene💛🌹
One of my favorite novels..In this 1992 version, the actors did justice to the characters, especially Heathcliff played by Ralph Fiennes. Whenever I read the book, My heart always aches for others' behavior towards Heathcliff.
They made him what he was, sadly.
@@janesgems7 True, he was already homeless and underprivileged.
Ralph has beautiful lines, when seen in profile - so well worked like the statues of the Greek Gods :)
i love both Cathy and Heathcliff..they both played in "The Patient"
They were the least convincing "Cathy and Heathcliff" I have seen. Having been in The English Patient is NOT a recommendation!! LOL
I just love the moment she looks deeply into his eyes and says 'Heathcliff...'
It rubs me the wrong way that Cathy professes her love to Heathcliff, yet keeps him in his place as a servant.
Weren't Heathcliffe and Cathy MUCH younger when they stumbled upon The Grange? And this version doesn't do much to show how close they were as children. He just looks like some stagehand she randomly gained interest in when she hit puberty.
I lost da love of my life. He died, i lived. 47 years later im still waitin to be w him. I can relate to this story. I cannot live w out my life, i cannot live without my soul. I live n miss u Chetta
Ohh how sweet...I lost mine also...now I'm old.. it's too late for me...
@@jamesdaniel2363 omg youre such a heathcliff
Thank you so much for uploading this *.* I´ve always wanted to see this movie ^^
I don't give a damn how good-looking someone like Heathcliff may be, I would never forgive him for starving those poor baby birds or any of his psychotic acts toward innocents.
I totally agree.
a very beautiful and touchy movie the actors great especially ralph fiennes he is so gorgeous
@LOVESUZU0929
Cathy and Heathcliff were not as common in character as anyone could be - they were "nurslings of the moors", children of mother nature and so their instincts would play a huge role in their everyday behaviour.
Ralph Fiennes immortalized Heathcliff no other actor will be Heathcliff as he
er... I suggest you look for the Timothy Dalton version.
@@chipgaasche4933 I'll one up you both..... Sir Laurence Olivier wipes the floor with both.
@@colliric wrong, colliric. Larry even said he wasn't thrilled with the '39 WH. He wanted his wife to play Cathy..but she was filming Gone With The Wind. They got the much too cold Oberon. Also, Olivier disliked the director. I believe Dalton pulled off the change from the dirty farmhand to the suave success he became much more believably than any other version.
@@chipgaasche4933 We are allowed to disagree. I loved Olivier's version. I loved the black & white cinematography, and I thought Oberon played Cathy's dual-personality quite well.
William Wyler is one of my favourite classic directors, he also directed my favourite film ever, 1959's 11-oscars winning masterpiece Ben-Hur. So maybe I'm a little biased, lol.
Well I thought Ralph was Daniel Day Lewis for years. He would have been great though😊
We did this book in our first semester of literary study and I wrote my first paper about the oppositions of the two houses. I think this film portrais this very nicely. After reading it first I thought that Heathcliff was absolutely gorgeous, but having read it several times now, I wouldn't take him for anything in the world. They were all a pretty selfish lot.
But at least he had the excuse of being the product of a brutal upbringing.
@@janesgems7 I don't believe that is any excuse at all. It is our personality and choices that define us, not what is done upon us. Cathy and her dad showed him kindness, he preferred to echo back the worst shown to him instead of the best.
@@Skitdora2010 Now that's interesting.
Earnshaw showed him kindness...and he adored him. But Cathy, who like her brother was spoiled, was quite unkind to him at first....yet he still adored her. Then after she became infatuated with the privileged lifestyle of the Lintons, she chose wealth over love. And ruined everyone's lives, including her own. Heathcliff was no saint, but neither was he a devil. Heathcliff was very much like Sweeney Todd, who became a hate filled hollow man obsessed with one thing - revenge.
Why is Cathy so giggly? There is no way she was like that in the book.
Giggly? My thoughts exactly,Richard.Maybe not the right choice..never read the book,though.Is she rebellious enough in the movie? Does not seem so.But as I did not read the book..
Darnet, if this movie is nothing like the book, how the heck am I supposed to do my homework???? ....I guess sparknotes will have to do.
Ralph Fiennes is great in the role...but am I the only one with a little voice in the back of my head shouting, "Cathy, watch out, it's Lord Voldermort!"
Honestly, I'm not sure Heathcliff's much safer... also, why are they adults throughout this film? :/
The 'always' line that Heathcliff gives Cathy was the biggest telltale for me! ; D
I suggest you look for the Timothy Dalton version.
@@chipgaasche4933 I love Timothy Dalton but that version too often slips into melodrama.
I'm not sure anyone has come up with the truly definitive version of WH. It might be a story that's just too hard to film.
@@Fitzwilliamdarcy1000 They aren't. They are shown meeting as children early on in the film.
I appreciate the ambition of the 1992 version; it's the only 2-hour film version that tries to tell the full story of the book. But that consequently means that they have to keep the pace moving and some crucial set up is missed at the beginning.
Ralph Fiennes is a brilliant Heathcliff, though. Up there with Dalton and Hardy. He wasn't afraid to play Heathcliff as the ruthless anti-hero he became, while making it clear how haunted he was throughout by his obsessive love for Cathy.
This hurts to watch, poor hewthcliff
@TheJelly1995 I most definitely agree. Not a nice guy at all. But he did love Catherine, I'll give him that.
They are experts because they are readers. My good lady, you do not have to be a student or anyone for that matter to understand this book or any book. You do not have to be a student either to appreciate the film. This is not goddamn rocket science. (And even that isn't that hard.)
A person only has to be willing to take the character's hand and everything will be revealed to them.
Ralph Fiennes is great here.
it's weird to see 30 somethings playing young teenagers, still kids but early puberty....
Ralph Fiennes was 28 when he shot this film.
Thank you soo much for posting these ! :)
AWW isnt he just adorable! i love heathcliff!
yes, that's when I always try to say...he just wanted to be accepted and loved back by the one he loved, and all he had was hatred...
I thought they were really young during the part where the dog bit her at Linton's???
I'm not sure. It could have been anything. People got sick at the drop of a hat back then.
I love this movie
I like the version with Tom Hardy.
@@francesca1386I bet you do, Francesca. I bet you do
Edgar was a pud! Heathcliff forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's ONE way of looking at them...if you're a twit.
heathcliff is a psychopath
@BeauCulMonsieur oh i agree completely! I really dont like Juliette Binoche as Cathy. I feel this verson also rushed the story alot at the beginning. My fav version is 2009, may not be the most faithful but its brillantly acted and told well.
Better than the early 70s version??
here is one of the great stories ever written and all people on here go on about is how good looking heathcliff is .............crotch brains.
Have you read the book. He makes a horible and terrifing father
@BeauCulMonsieur There are actors who can act the life of someone else, and there are actors who can become someone else. I'm afraid Juliette Binoche - in this particular film - belongs to the first.
Good point, Bo. Anna Calder-Marshall BECAME Cathy!
I love Juliette Binoche; she's a very fine actor and to cut her slack, this was her first major English speaking role. But she is entirely miscast in this part. She's just not able to translate the wildness, capriciousness and power that Cathy possesses. Which is too bad. 😕 I also could not help but find her French accent distracting.
@iamnamine BTW: My prior comment was not meant to be snobby or mean, it's just that Wuthering Heights is such a great book that I'd hate for anyone to miss out on reading it first-hand, even if it is just for some homework assignment. There have been some lovely adaptations (my favorite is the 2009 one), but it's not QUITE the same as reading the book, though the feeling of the 2009 one does come close.
Actually I agree with you about this. He gets his revenge on people, and animals, who had done nothing to him.
To think we can see the whole movie here.Great as some I just cannot see.
so far edgar seems more assertive than the book portrayed him to be
The dog actually bit her leg in the movie.
If so many people are complaining about this version then why continue watching it? How about we all keep the rude comments to ourselves? I like this version actually. (:
What makes you think they "keep watching it"? Are you a moron, Buggy?
Ralph was made for this role.
What the hell... She twists her ankle and faints because there are dogs chasing her down and she just STAYS there? Did they keep her or did she just think, "hey, I like this place better than my house!"
They do not live in the city and there are no cars. You try hobbling along with a twisted ankle several miles to get back home. Yes, they kept her there.
Actually, the dog bit her! And she could have returned earlier but became infatuated with the wealth and comfort of the Lintons' home.
@Schoolgirl325 Sorry what I meant to say, was that during this time the term 'gypsy' did not always mean a literal gypsy,but a foreigner.
Yeh, in the book Cathy goes to the Linton's at about 13
Lawrence Olivier always seemed too clean(? I'm not sure if that's the right word?) as Heathcliff for my liking. Although a few scenes in that production were absolutely magnificent.
Juliet binott❤❤❤❤❤❤
@HeartlessBuggy
omg I totally agree!!!! People and their unnecessary comments. If you don't like it...don't watch it!! Palin and simple. I think this is a great version...sooo
Both actors are far too old for teens.
Actually it was the same in all the movie versions
haha : name this child! -silence- and cathy takes proudly the role of the new misstress^^lol
Weren't Catherine and Heathcliff meant to be only a little past their teens during this stuff? They look the same at the very start of the story and twenty years afterward (at least Heathcliff does). It annoys me when the movie doesn't follow the book.
@TheFoodie24 But she was very ill already when she gave birth and died soon after so I think it is ok to make it faster in this film, because they always have to skip something so the film wouldn't last too long.
For real histrionics you need to watch the 1939 version with Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
I must have the German version. Can you help me?
'39 version of me like, it's better made.
It's well made and I like Olivier in some ways as Heathcliff. But it's not very faithful to the spirit of the story (too samitized) and of course only tells half of it.
naw, hes a gypsy and gypsies are all from india. they left india and traveled to north africa, the middle east and europe. The gypsies ranged in color but some are quite dark skinned so thats why they called him black skinned in the book, though he prolly was brown skinned since racist people clump people together despite varying characteristics.
великолепно
Poor heathcliff
There--hand-in-hand we tread again
The mazes of this varying wood paddle,
And soon, amid a cultured plain,
Girt in with fertile solitude,
We shall our resting-place descry,
Marked by one roof-tree, towering high
Above a farmstead rude to mine face.
you got it all right. in the book they were kids at that time. it really dosnt make any sense for me in thtis version :S
how old are they in the movie ??
because i think they are younger in the book .. :s
Cathy like a Daisy
I see what you mean about that irritating laugh.
haha name this child! -silence- chathy takes the "resposibility" ^^ lol
yeah i agree.
Like 15 or something then cathy and edgar get married at lyk 15. Cos catherine died at 18.
should i believe that tyey are teen agers??????????
It's annoying how little the dialogue is for Catherine. What the hell!
it was explained better in the book, he was upset with her because she was laughing at how dirty he was.
shouldn't this happened when she was younger??😂😂
I really like Jeremy Northam,but this is the first time I hate him sooooooo much!!
Hindley actually ruined everyone's life in the story...He caused every disaster and hatred with his treatment of Heathcliff.
+MSE. Dzirasa That's also what I think. If Hindley had acted like a real brother towards Heathcliff, and not like a jerk, there wouldn't have been all the revenge story, and Cathy and Heathcliff would probably have gotten maried and lived a not-so-terriblr life.
I thought Healthcliff was supposed to be Black
i am not too fond of julliette binoche as cathy. it's hard to fit someone in this charater.
the neighbors gave her new clothes? is it common thing to do?
completely. im sorry but i still like heathcliff even after everythig he did
seince when is heathcliff so happy and smiley
that place seems gloomy all the time, lack of sunlight/Vit. D...hehe
Don't remember that from the book, but I guess it's been a while... Just seems a little strange by today's standards, you know? If I went to my best friend's house and broke my toe on a rock, you can bet my parents would have dragged me outta there at that age...
Guess the only excuse the producers could use was that people aged faster back then :/
i love ralph fiennes
Kylan Disher me too
I have always been confused as just what exactly was wrong with Cathy...what illness did she have?
this version is pants!! they had bloody YORKSHIRE accents for a start not plum-in-the-mouth accents. pah, overactors. the tom hardy version is magnificent
I like the acting in the 2009 version but they took too many liberties with the story and setting. They leeched so much of the Gothic out of it. I HATED what they did to the ending.
@xXxXInspireMeXxXx
LOL THIS WAS LIKE IN THE LATE 1700'S OR SOMETHING!
Still prefer the 70's version w/Timothy Dalton
Ralph Fiennes 🐈, gato,,,
@dazzledbystarlight17 yeah he does cathy talks about it
@TheJelly1995
He had a temper, like her jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
@JoyWillCome your mem is great!!they are much older here... to my disappointment because i really wanted to see this innocent love represented here...
Heathcliff should be scruffy, right?
I suggest you look for the Timothy Dalton version.
@@chipgaasche4933 I prefer his portrayal of Mr Rochester more, but he made a commendable Heathcliff 👍
good comment...i figure if you kick a dog long enough it'll bite....and you should not be suprised when it does
@YouWillBeMyRoots yeah I think they were about 13.
This thing is all messed up :s
What is livin without him
This movie has very little to do with the book. Apart from Juliette Binoche very dubious looks, she's been cast to portray both Catherine and Cathy, and that's fucking senseless, along with having the same actor for the diffrent ages of Heathcliff. who's the director of this thing...
Heathcliff is hot! :D
How did she end up unconscious???
were'nt they supposed to be kids when they went to the linton's?
@iamnamine I suppose reading the actual book is out of the question? Without any sparknote nonsense or using movies to cheat?
if they were younger then I would feel like the movie would be better D : that's what gets me man ruining my mental picture one movie at a time